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Scientific paper
Dec 2003
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003agufmed22c1244b&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2003, abstract #ED22C-1244
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6600 Public Issues, 6605 Education, 6699 General Or Miscellaneous
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The National Science Education Standards (NSES) emphasize that students should learn science through inquiry and should understand the concepts and processes that shape our natural world. One method of accomplishing these goals is to provide students and teachers with opportunities to participate in scientists' ongoing research. The GLOBE program has done this to an extent through the involvement of students in taking environmental observations and reporting them in a useful way. However, in this project we move the teachers and students beyond the collection of data, to engage them in an interesting scientific question that they have formulated on their own, perhaps with the help of a teacher and a participating scientist. In collaboration with a scientist and their teacher, the students address their question by collecting the necessary data, performing an analysis of the data, drawing conclusions, and reporting the results. In this way, the ideal of real scientific inquiry is pursued through more formal relationships among scientists, teachers and students. David Brooks, a GLOBE Science PI, has been conducting research to learn more about how the concentration of atmospheric aerosols varies in time and space, and how those variations may be related to other changes on the planet. Students can support Dr. Brooks' research while engaging in a research project of their own. A description of the project provided for teachers and students can be found at the following url http://essn.terc.edu/projects/proj_brooks01/ovrvw_01.cfm In this presentation we will describe our activities from the 2002-2003 school year during which we involved three schools (two in New Jersey and one in North Carolina) in the atmospheric aerosols research project; and our plans for the 2003-2004 school year with possibly more than six schools.
Brooks Daniel
Holzer Markus
Ledley Tamara Shapiro
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